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Plunge
Into This River
The
Solution Of Your Difficulty
The
Diamonds Of Heaven
Like
A Viper To The Heart
A
Heap Of Ostentatious Service
The
New Heart
Painted
Pleasures
Sickness
Comfort
For Sick Saints
The
Way Of Salvation
Saving
Faith
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The Ocean of Divine Love
(by
Octavius Winslow)
The
love of God to His people was as eternal as the eternity of
His being, as everlasting as His uncreated nature. "I have
loved you with an everlasting love." It panted, it yearned
for an outlet. It sought and found it in Christ. Nowhere in
the heavens above, or in the earth beneath, or in the waters
under the earth; no star, no flower, no creature, so
reveals, expresses, and embodies the love of God as the gift
of His dear Son to die for our sins!
Oh,
what love is this!
"God so loved the world!"
So loved, that He gave Jesus!
Jesus is the most precious exponent of God's
love: Jesus descends from the bosom of His love; Jesus draws
aside the veil of His love; Jesus is God's love expressed,
God's love incarnate, God's love speaking, labouring, dying,
redeeming! Beyond this it would seem impossible that
love could go.
Jesus is the channel through which the ocean of
Divine love washed the shores of this earth, its soul
healing waves spreading like a sea of life over our sin
tainted, curse blighted, sorrow stricken humanity.
Oh,
let every affection of our heart, every faculty of our soul,
every power of our mind, every action of our life, embody as
its grateful response the words of the adoring apostle,
"Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable Gift!"
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